Casket.



P. BAHR.

GASKET.

APPLICATION man ocT. 12. 1916.

Patented Mar. 27, 1917.

A TTORNEY WITNESSES:

PAUL BA1-IR, 0F CHICAGQ, ILLINOIS.

GASKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

ran-,area Mar. av, reir.

Application filed october 12, 1916. Serial No.- 125,143.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be 1t known that I, PAUL BAHR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago,

in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gaskets, of which the following is aspecification.

The essential object of this invention is to provide means for hermetically sealing caskets or collins and is particularly intended of; F ig. 3 is a perspective view of one of' the members by which the sealing is accomplished; and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the member which cooperates with the board shown in Fig. 3.

The casket proper 1 within which the remains to be interred are placed, may be made of metal or wood sheathed or lined with metal, and at the top of the casket, the grooved receptacles 2 and 3 are placed. Said members 2 and 3 are disposed parallel to each other and one of them is fixed on each side of the casket 1, being fastened to the top of the casket in any suitable manner. Inside of the members 2 and 3, the downwardly-depending tongues 4f and 5 are placed, and the overturned flanged lips 6 and 7 are adapted to receive and retain strips of rubber or other resilient packing 8 and 9.

The cover 10 of the casket is formed in the usual manner, but in addition receives the tank 11, within which a quantity of water can be placed. Depending from the tank 11 is a pipe 12 controlled by valve 13 operated from handle 141 which projects outside of the cover 10. Depending from the cover are the V-shaped flanged members 15 provided with a series of perforations 16, which V-shaped members 15 should preferably be of substantially the same length as the chambers 2 and 3 within which they are adapted respectively to be received. The pipe 12, or at any event its discharge end, is in vertical registration with one of the V-shaped members 15.

The V-shaped members 15 may be extended as a continuous flanged member on all four sides or they may be cross-connected i-n any other manner so as to permit the water which drops from the pipe 12 to circulatc around and fill up the space within the two arms of the v as well as to pass through the perforation 16.

Vtithin the chambers 2 and 3 a suitable quantity of cement is placed. When the casket is to be permanently closed and sealed, the cover 10 is placed in position and the a -shaped flange or flanges 15 will be received within the tubular chambers 2 and 3 by retaining the cover 10 immovably in place.

In the manufacture of the caskets, the cement can be placed in the chamber 2 at the factory where the goods are made up and the caskets shipped out with the cement already in place. The resilient members 8 or 9 will engage the tl-shaped flanges 15, as best shown in Fig. 2, and will retain the particles of cement, even when'in the dry or powdered form, in place, and, when the cover 10 is lifted of, the resilient members 8 or 9 will brush or spray the sides of the ii-shaped anges 15, and will remove any particles of cement which may have adhered to the flanges.

While I have illustrated and described a preferred form of construction for carrying my invention into eifect, the same is capable of a wide range of variation, alteration, modification and change without departing from the spirit of the invention. I, therefore, do not wish to be limitedto the construction herein shown and described, but desire to avail myself of all such variations, alterations, modifications and changes as fairly fall within the scope of the appended claims or may be construed to come within the same by i 1folving the doctrine of equivalents.

I claim as my invention:

1. A casket provided with a chambered receptacle adapted to hold a quantity of cement, a cover provided with a flanged member adapted to project into said chambored receptacle and into the cement contained therewithin, a tank upon the cover, a pipe leading from said tank to a point above the chambered receptacle, and means for controlling the flow of water from said pipe.

2. A casket provided. with la chambered receptacle adapted to hold a quantity of cement, a cover provided with a J-shaped flanged member adapted to project into said chambered receptacle and into the cement contained therewthin, said V-shaped member being provided with a row of perforations adjacent the crotch of the V, a tank upon the cover, a pipe leading from said tank to a point above the chambered receptacle, and means for controlling the flow of Water from said pipe.

3. A casket provided with achambered receptacle adapted to hold a quantity of cement, a cover provided with a V-sliaped flanged member adapted to project into said chambered receptacleand into the cement contained therewithin, said V-shaped member being provided with a row of perforations adjacent the crotch of the V, a tank upon the cover, a pipe leading from said tank to a point above the ehambered receptacle, and means for controlling tlie flow of Water from said pipe, there being a pair of downwardly-depending lips Within said chambered receptacle, said il-shaped anged member being received Within the space in termediate said downwardly depending lips.

In testimony whereof afliX my signature.

PAUL BAHR.

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